Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 6 secondary schools. Maybury Primary School is the nearest published school at 448 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU21 5JW
Canalside · Woking · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU21 5JW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2004
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU21
- Postcode sector
- GU21 5
- Latitude
- 51.323871
- Longitude
- -0.545346
- British National Grid easting
- 501,456
- British National Grid northing
- 159,312
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Woking · E07000217
- Electoral ward
- Canalside · E05010796
- Parish or community
- E43000144
- Westminster constituency
- Woking · E14001592
- Output area
- E00157947
- Lower layer super output area
- Woking 004A · E01030980
- Middle layer super output area
- Woking 004 · E02006459
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore GU21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 6
- 448 m
Maybury Primary School
Academy converter
- 495 m
St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School, Woking
Voluntary aided school
- 680 m
The Park School
Academy special sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,621
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 889
- Shoplifting 350
- Anti social behaviour 330
- Public order 254
- Other theft 211
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GU21 5 residents
- 9,162
Age bands in GU21 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.5%
1,918 residents
1,132 residents
2,943 residents
1,998 residents
938 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
15
within 5 km straight-line
THE PRACTICE COLLEGE ROAD
4-6 COLLEGE ROAD, MAYBURY, WOKING, GU22 8BT
ODS code H81641
413 m
MAYBURY SURGERY
ALPHA ROAD, WOKING, GU22 8HF
ODS code H81643
483 m
SUNNY MEED SURGERY
15-17 HEATHSIDE ROAD, WOKING, GU22 7EY
ODS code H81019
1.0 km
HEATHCOT MEDICAL PRACTICE
YORK HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, HEATHSIDE ROAD, WOKING, GU22 7XL
ODS code H81032
1.2 km
HILLVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
3 HEATHSIDE ROAD, WOKING, GU22 7QP
ODS code H81061
1.3 km
SOUTHVIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
SOUTHVIEW SURGERY, SOUTHVIEW COURT, GUILDFORD ROAD, WOKING, GU22 7RR
ODS code H81041
1.5 km
SHEERWATER HEALTH CENTRE
DEVONSHIRE AVENUE, DEVONSHIRE AVE, SHEERWATER, WOKING, GU21 5QJ
ODS code H81123
1.5 km
MADEIRA MEDICAL
MADEIRA ROAD, WEST BYFLEET, KT14 6DH
ODS code H81034
3.2 km
PARISHES BRIDGE MED.PRACT
WEST BYFLEET HEALTH CENTRE, MADEIRA ROAD, WEST BYFLEET, KT14 6DH
ODS code H81036
3.2 km
WEY FAMILY PRACTICE
MADEIRA ROAD, WEST BYFLEET, KT14 6DH
ODS code H81050
3.2 km
GOLDSWORTH PARK HEALTH CENTRE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GOLDSWORTH PARK CENTRE, GOLDSWORTH PARK, WOKING, GU21 3LQ
ODS code H81024
3.3 km
ST JOHN'S FAMILY PRACTICE
HERMITAGE ROAD, ST. JOHNS, WOKING, GU21 8TD
ODS code H81025
3.9 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL CTR
SEND BARNS LANE, SEND, WOKING, GU23 7BP
ODS code H81053
4.4 km
NEW OTTERSHAW SURGERY
3 BOUSLEY RISE, OTTERSHAW, CHERTSEY, KT16 0JX
ODS code H81658
4.4 km
CHOBHAM & WEST END MEDICAL PRACTICE
16 WINDSOR ROAD, CHOBHAM, WOKING, GU24 8NA
ODS code H81015
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Kings Road
BCT · Woking
- 0.1 miles
Maybury Arch
BCT · Woking
- 0.1 miles
Boundary Road
BCT · Woking
- 0.1 miles
Lion Retail Park
BCT · Woking
- 0.2 miles
Lion Retail Park
BCT · Woking
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Woking 004A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,702 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,621 published events cover 12 months, averaging 218.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 889 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.